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personification, figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstract ideas are endowed with human qualities, e.g., allegorical morality plays where characters include Good Deeds, Beauty, and Death. John Ruskin termed sentimentalized, exaggerated personification the "pathetic fallacy." See also allegory allegory, in literature, symbolic story that serves as a disguised representation for meanings other than those indicated on the surface. The characters in an allegory often have no individual personality, but are embodiments of moral qualities and other abstractions. ..... Click the link for more information. ; apostrophe apostrophe, figure of speech in which an absent person, a personified inanimate being, or an abstraction is addressed as though present. The term is derived from a Greek word meaning "a turning away," and this sense is maintained when a narrative or dramatic thread ..... Click the link for more information. ; metonymy metonymy (mĭtŏn`əmē) ..... Click the link for more information. . |
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| Warhol Gives Good Face: Publicity and the Politics of Prosopopoeia. But his canonization of Sidney and Milton as "major allegorists of English literature" may unsettle readers who associate allegory with extended passages of prosopopoeia or with a text's location of meaning beyond the terms of its immediate fiction. I would argue that, in Douglass's prosopopoeia of himself and his mother, the face presented implies a cultural identity that offsets, reverses, and ironizes the implied cultural identity of Douglass's belletristic rhetoric; i. |
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